Fines of up to £90,000 could have been imposed on the foreign drivers caught speeding.

UK motorists frustrated

The worst case was on the A1 near Oakham where a vehicle with foreign number plates was caught travelling at 121 mph.

"People will be a little frustrated to see that a foreign driver is perhaps getting away with speeding because we can't trace them and they themselves may have drifted over the speed limit and been caught," said Hema Lad from the Leicestershire Safety Camera Partnership.

Labour's Peter Soulsby said: "It just needs our computer system at the DVLA to be linked with similar systems in other European countries.

"It needs them to talk to each other to exchange information and make sure these drivers that are breaking our laws pay our fines."